Corn-planter.



F. F. & R. UJHAL CORN PLA NTBR. APPLICATION FILED NOV .10,'1913.

Patented Dec. 1. 1914.

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CORN-PLANTER.

7 '0 all it may concern:

Be it known that we, 'FRANKLIN F. HALL andRAY U. HALL, citizens of the United States, residing at Defiance, in'the county of Defiance and-State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful. Improvefments in (Zorn-Planters, and we do declare the'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to corn planters, or in fact to any type of seedplanter whether actuatedbya check row wire or by power taken from the axle, and the primary objectof the same is to construct such a machine so that it will, do the planting on rough or uneven ground ust as .well as on level or mellow ground, and will plant three rowsat a time instead of two rows-thereby do ingfiifty per cent. more work. A further advantage resulting from the machine. is

that the-"horses walk between the rows so that the'seed is not dropped-in their footsteps ior tracks and therefore grows evenly,

theseed being dropped in the "horse-tracks.

'LThB invention is carried out by providing the paths between a novel hinge connection between the side section of the main frame and the side sections of the dropper frame, and universal joints between the shafts in these sections. The invention also. contemplates the employment of two levers, one of which controls the dropper frame and two feed boxes at one side of said hinge, and the other of which controls the dropper frame and single feed box at the other side of said hinge.

Details are set forth in the following specification and are shown in the drawing wherein Figure 1 is' a plan view of this machine complete. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation showing it traveling on substantially level ground, and Fig. 3

similar view showing it traveling on uneven ground with the right hand wheel raised. Fig.4: is a-perspective view one end of the front portion of the mathine, with the seed boxes, dropper shafts,

and shoes omitted. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1.

The type of corn planter to which our invention is applied is not essential, and there-- fore we lay no claim to its details of construction, not even to those parts hereinafter mentioned of necessity because they coact Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1914.

Application filed November 10, 1913. Se rial'No. 800,209.

with the features of our inventioh. The? latter may, in fact,be applied to many Va rieties of corn planters and other planters.

In building our first machine we took atwo-row corn planter havingtwo wheels and a dropper frame with twd bonfes adjustableby a handlever, and removed; the draft mechanism. Then we took a'nothersimilar machine and removed ts di'aft. ;n1ec l1anism' and one-wheel and one feed box, and connected that endof the machine and dropper frame from which the parts were removed, with the adjacent end of the other corn planter, finally applying a draft mechanism at about the transverse center of the machine thus built up. On this understanding, Fig. 1 shows a three-wheel machine with two of its wheels 1 and 2 on one axle-3, and the other wheel' on another axle 5 which is independent of the first axle. Theaxles are mounted in frame sections 6 and 7 which have offset ends hingedlyconnected with 'each other atthe point 8 the contiguous 'ends of the axle sections being separated from each other atth'e point 9 between the offset ends of the frames'e'ctions- The scrapers 10 have their shaft sections 11 con nected by a universal joint 12, one member of which may be fixed to one shaft section while the other member 13 of said joint telescopes with thetubular end of the other shaft section 11. The obvious purpose is that when the main frame flexes on the hinge line 8 the scraper-shaft may bend at the universal joint as is permitted by the telescoping details. The dropper frame is also made in two sections 15 and 16 which are hingedly connected with each other on the line and at the point 17, said line being indicated at AB in Fig. 1' as extending longitudinally through the machine and as near 'as possible to its transverse center. The check shaft is also made in sections 18 and 19 connected by a joint 20; and obviously this shaft may be actuated by checkrow mechanism located at points X in the drawings. The dropper-shaft is also made in sections 23 and 24. connected by a universal joint 25 of which shaft member 26 is tubular and telescopes with one section 24. The dropper shaft may be driven by the check shaft, or by connections with the axle as shown at Hand levers 27 and 28 are connected with the two dropper frame sec- 1-0 nary tongue 35 disposed a little to one side of the hinge line AB, and a pair of hounds 36, 37 connected at their rear ends with the dropper frame sections and 16 and having eyes in their front ends loosely ene 15 gaging eyes or hooks 39 secured to the sides of the tongue. applied near the center of the machine and by the hounds to the dropper frame sections in such manner as to permit said'sections 20 to rise and fall as required.

\Vith a machine of this kind two horses are hitched to the tongue by ordinary means not necessary to illustrate, andthey travel in the spaces between rows or between the .25 lines where the rows of corn' or seed are to be. planted, and this machine, drops three rows at a; {f.ti-meone row between the horsetracks and'other row's at" opposite sides thereof on the level ground and the corn therefore comes up evenly. Another advantage resulting from the construction set forth is that in case one side wheel or the central wheel passes over an obstruction (see Fig. 3) the entiremain frame and the dropper frame may flex'along the hinge line A B without interrupting the seeding process. By the word obstruction We do not mean an ordinary stone, but rather a rise in the ground through which the shoe of the 40 ordinary planter would plow to an equal depth with the other shoe and plant the seed deeper as will be clear. By the use of our machine, however, travel over said obstruction or rise in the By this means the draftis one wheel will itself to unevennesss' in the ground withoutattention on the-part of the operator. The factthat som'e'of the rotating. parts are located on a line abovethe hinge line 8 between the main frame sections, requires that the universal oint interposed bet-ween the:

dropper-shaft-sections shall telescope at one orthe'other sides of the joint, so that the shaft may extend slightly when-the frame flexes in one way andmay contract slightly when the frame flexes in the other way.

The uses of machines of this kind are too well known to need elaboration here.

\V hat is'claimed as new. is In a corn planter the combinat on of a hingedly connected sectional frame, longif' tudinally alined axles mounted in said fra mewith their inner ends spaced apart at points registering with the hinges of said frame sections, scraper, dropper and check shafts made inpivotally connected-sections, the pivotal points of which register with the connections of the othermembers, said drop per and-scraper shafts being-connected by universal joints having telescopic connection I with one ofthe sections thereof, and presed on said frame sections. Y

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our. handsiin presence of two SllbSCIlb ing witnesses.

' FRANKLIN F. HALL, RAY U. HALL.

sure applying levers independently mount- Vitnesses GEORGE M. KIL EY, JOHN D. LAMB. 

